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C-5060 Wide Zoom Digital Camera (Olympus-225420)

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2 Fair
Reviewed by: gotts

Updated: 18-Nov-05

Strengths: Sharp pictures, long battery life. Can take pictures from any angle: ground-level shot of a puppy or high picture of a crowd.

Weaknesses: Reliabilty & long life of the camera is a big issue.

Overall Evaluation: Its a great camera, sharp pictures, long battery life. I took ~ 250 shots on a single charge and life still left. After about a year, it starts acting up. I think its sensitive to humidity, the lens gets noisy, and the camera became non-functional. Lucky me, I got the extended warranty at the last minute, and if you still have time, get the extended warranty.

2 Fair
Reviewed by: hgl27

Updated: 15-Aug-05

Strengths: Lot of great features for the advanced amateur

Weaknesses: Does not work after a year and a half

Overall Evaluation: Takes great pictures when it works. The control and arrow dials do not work after 15 months. Very poor software. Do not buy this camera unless you are prepared to spend an additional $170.00 for repairs within 15 months.

1 Poor
Reviewed by: frango

Updated: 18-Jan-05

Strengths: Easy to use and wonderful photos while it worked well

Weaknesses: Right now doesn`t work because of the DIAL MODE PROBLEM, dial buttons donnot work, i cannot erase the photos, and olympus people just say pay for us$200 maintainance service. I can`t enter the menu!!

Overall Evaluation: What can i do with this camera to get it fixed whitout paying for that quantity of money, this is a problem that has itself the camera and it was not because of the us.

1 Poor
Reviewed by: sreese93

Updated: 08-Sep-04

Strengths:

Weaknesses: Horrible customer service.

Overall Evaluation: DO NOT BUY!Olympus has a problem w/ part# VC7997 on these cameras that causes menus to pop up on LCD w/o touching buttons and buttons stop working. Numerous people are complaining about this problem on the Internet - go to yahoo groups, Olympus_405080. Olympus needs to recall camera. Mine worked fine for almost 3 months before problem arose so don't think yours won't fail.

5 Superior
Reviewed by: Arvieviloria

Updated: 07-Jul-04

Strengths: GREAT PICTURE QUALITY (even in low-light conditions), fast start-up, swiveling LCD, nice to handle, manual setting options

Weaknesses: disappointing software (well, i purchased the product not because of this)

Overall Evaluation: Great pictures! That's all what matters really why one buys a camera. I have been eyeing the Olympus-C4000 and the Sony Cybershot P9 for more than a year now but the battery life, low-light condition pics, and not so great pic quality of the cybershot was a turn off :( The C-4000 only has 4.1 MP quality, and the lens (cylinder moving according to some reviews) again were turn-offs :(So I finally decided to get the C-5060 (yes, I stuck to the Olympus brand) and i made the right choice! Great pic quality! The wide zoom lens is also nice, I can take a picture of our whole family inside a van not having to move backward and finding a good position to shoot! Great position of buttons for manual shooting settings! If you are intimidated by those buttons, fear not! You can always use the default settings and have great pictures! And besides, the cd has a manual clearly describing all the uses of those buttons and you can shoot like a pro in no time! You have to be patient browsing the...

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